Factory Farming

The large consumption of meat in recent years has caused terrible living condition for animals in factory farms. First of all, animals suffer their whole lives, being controlled by humans that do not care for their living condition. Because of their large numbers, the animals don’t have the space that they need to live naturally. They are fed with substitute feeds that are not natural and they don’t have any contact with nature. These animals are suffering in small, dirty sheds, cooped into a cage that increases the possibility for diseases. This can also affect the consumers. Why must these animals suffer their whole lives? People have to be aware these conditions and stop treating animals so barbarically. Animals are not just food, they have lives.

One kind of animal in factory farms is the pig. Every year in United States, 110 million pigs are killed for food. As picture above shows, those pigs are living and dying into factories' crates with no sun and fresh air. When piglets are born, people assort them from their mothers when they are just 10 days old and later on they separate them for meat or breeding. The Professor of Cambridge University, Dr Donald Broom supports that pigs are intelligent animals, “Pigs can play video games, and when given the choice, they have indicated temperature preferences in their surroundings.” This means that pigs are more sensitive than we think they are and they are aware of their surroundings and feel pain.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vqIGTKuQE&feature=player_detailpage&vhs=1#!

This video is about how a food company called Smithfield Foods is inhumane. It treats the animals horribly just because they're going to end up dying anyways.  People who made the video are trying to get this topic wide spread so they can stop this abuse of the animals.